2010 starting off as hottest year in satellite record. Temperatures at 14,000' from satellites.Top line ending in a small box is 2010. Heavy yellow=20 year average. Magenta=record highs. Green=2009. Make your own chart here. For larger version click here.

2009 second hottest year on record in Australia. 2000-2009 hottest decade. Jan. 13, 2010: Melbourne has hottest overnight temperature in 108 years.

Another view: Australian temperature anomalies 1960-2009Every part of Australia has warmed, some by 1.5 to 2 °C over five decades

"This suggests an apparent shift in Australia’s climate from one characterised by natural variability to one increasingly characterised by a trend to warmer temperatures."

Changes in timing of spring events in days per decade for individual species grouped by taxonomy or functional type. Each bar represents a separate, independent species. Negative values indicate advancement (earlier changes through time) while positive values indicate delay (later changes through time). Far more spring events are coming earlier than are coming later. Parmesan (2007)

Increase in number of days between last and first frosts, US Northeast, 1901-2001(Red=more days without frost)

California lakes warming

Drought in Middle East

Sea level rising since 1870

All satellite data and 3-month average

Oceans growing more acidic (more negative pH) between 1700s and 1900sas atmospheric CO2 rise and more dissolves in the oceans